Ed Hodgson
@edhodgson.bsky.social
I wore my fringe like Edwyn Collins
December 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
One of the strangest places you'll ever stumble into...
This month, The White Hotel is 10. In 2026, they launch The Black Lights festival in Blackpool.
For The Face, I spoke to aya, Blackhaine, Space Afrika, Finn, Rainy Miller and lots more DJs, promoters and regulars to tell the inside story of the notorious Salford club.
theface.com/music/the-wh...
For The Face, I spoke to aya, Blackhaine, Space Afrika, Finn, Rainy Miller and lots more DJs, promoters and regulars to tell the inside story of the notorious Salford club.
theface.com/music/the-wh...
The strange story of The White Hotel
Notorious. Experimental. Piss-taking. For 10 years, Salford venue The White Hotel has been the centre of the North’s alternative nightlife. Here, the…
theface.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
One of the strangest places you'll ever stumble into...
#AdventSingles
Day 4
Joseph the carpenter had been on top of the world with his engagement to Mary, but now he wasn't all that happy with this situation....
Day 4
Joseph the carpenter had been on top of the world with his engagement to Mary, but now he wasn't all that happy with this situation....
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#AdventSingles
Day 4
Joseph the carpenter had been on top of the world with his engagement to Mary, but now he wasn't all that happy with this situation....
Day 4
Joseph the carpenter had been on top of the world with his engagement to Mary, but now he wasn't all that happy with this situation....
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Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
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it's time to play a game of [pointing microphone to audience] IS! THAT! GOOD?
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
it's time to play a game of [pointing microphone to audience] IS! THAT! GOOD?
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
#5DebutAlbums7074
The Residents
It won't take you long to decide if you like this or not.
The first track is one of the greatest/worst* cover versions ever made
*Delete as applicable
The Residents
It won't take you long to decide if you like this or not.
The first track is one of the greatest/worst* cover versions ever made
*Delete as applicable
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#5DebutAlbums7074
The Residents
It won't take you long to decide if you like this or not.
The first track is one of the greatest/worst* cover versions ever made
*Delete as applicable
The Residents
It won't take you long to decide if you like this or not.
The first track is one of the greatest/worst* cover versions ever made
*Delete as applicable
#5DebutAlbums7074
Harmonia
Cluster + Rother make a lovely album together. Quite remarkable how they did it with really basic recording equipment.
Harmonia
Cluster + Rother make a lovely album together. Quite remarkable how they did it with really basic recording equipment.
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#5DebutAlbums7074
Harmonia
Cluster + Rother make a lovely album together. Quite remarkable how they did it with really basic recording equipment.
Harmonia
Cluster + Rother make a lovely album together. Quite remarkable how they did it with really basic recording equipment.
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Abolish the Home Office
The Home Office has started taking action on cases of Syrian refugees with pending settlement applications. People are being sent letters saying they have 21 days to provide evidence as to why they should not be returned to Syria. Panic is spreading.
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Abolish the Home Office
#AdventSingles
Day 3
And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. and will bear his son. You will name him Jesus.
Mary said "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel Jim (for it was he) said to her, "In the game of life everything is possible"
Day 3
And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. and will bear his son. You will name him Jesus.
Mary said "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel Jim (for it was he) said to her, "In the game of life everything is possible"
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#AdventSingles
Day 3
And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. and will bear his son. You will name him Jesus.
Mary said "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel Jim (for it was he) said to her, "In the game of life everything is possible"
Day 3
And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. and will bear his son. You will name him Jesus.
Mary said "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel Jim (for it was he) said to her, "In the game of life everything is possible"
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BREAKING: New police cover up details surrounding Hillsborough disaster revealed in major new investigation
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
New police cover up details over Hillsborough disaster exposed
Landmark new report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans and subsequent attempts to blam...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
BREAKING: New police cover up details surrounding Hillsborough disaster revealed in major new investigation
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
Landmark report confirms appalling actions of police officers from two forces before, during and after 1989 tragedy led to the unlawful killing of 97 Liverpool fans
Full story:
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old
#AdventSingles
Day 2
I don't have Mary's Prayer or anything by Peter Gabriel so this will have to do..
Day 2
I don't have Mary's Prayer or anything by Peter Gabriel so this will have to do..
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#AdventSingles
Day 2
I don't have Mary's Prayer or anything by Peter Gabriel so this will have to do..
Day 2
I don't have Mary's Prayer or anything by Peter Gabriel so this will have to do..
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Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
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This is a brilliant read
Absolutely fascinating piece about the race to save decaying musicians' master tapes as reported by Ben Sisario at the Times. Here's a gift link so you can read it.
#music #preservation
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
#music #preservation
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is a brilliant read
December 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#5DebutAlbums7074
Doris Duke - I'm a Loser
I don't think a singer has had it so bad since Patsy Cline was in her prime..
Terrific Southern Soul album. One for my Christmas list I think
dorisdukemusic.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-l...
Doris Duke - I'm a Loser
I don't think a singer has had it so bad since Patsy Cline was in her prime..
Terrific Southern Soul album. One for my Christmas list I think
dorisdukemusic.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-l...
I'm A Loser, by Doris Duke
12 track album
dorisdukemusic.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#5DebutAlbums7074
Doris Duke - I'm a Loser
I don't think a singer has had it so bad since Patsy Cline was in her prime..
Terrific Southern Soul album. One for my Christmas list I think
dorisdukemusic.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-l...
Doris Duke - I'm a Loser
I don't think a singer has had it so bad since Patsy Cline was in her prime..
Terrific Southern Soul album. One for my Christmas list I think
dorisdukemusic.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-l...
#NowPlaying
New today from CF Moore (aka Richard Skelton), maybe occupying a similar sonic space to Cluster 71.. Also a bit GYBE'ish
Track 2 sounded tremendous on first listen
foldedtime.bandcamp.com/album/blood-...
New today from CF Moore (aka Richard Skelton), maybe occupying a similar sonic space to Cluster 71.. Also a bit GYBE'ish
Track 2 sounded tremendous on first listen
foldedtime.bandcamp.com/album/blood-...
Blood High Star, by Burnt Harbors
2 track album
foldedtime.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#NowPlaying
New today from CF Moore (aka Richard Skelton), maybe occupying a similar sonic space to Cluster 71.. Also a bit GYBE'ish
Track 2 sounded tremendous on first listen
foldedtime.bandcamp.com/album/blood-...
New today from CF Moore (aka Richard Skelton), maybe occupying a similar sonic space to Cluster 71.. Also a bit GYBE'ish
Track 2 sounded tremendous on first listen
foldedtime.bandcamp.com/album/blood-...
#5DebutAlbums7074
Cluster -Cluster 71
A mighty slab of drone for a wet Monday morning. Somehow it sounds like it could have been made yesterday
clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluste...
Cluster -Cluster 71
A mighty slab of drone for a wet Monday morning. Somehow it sounds like it could have been made yesterday
clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluste...
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#5DebutAlbums7074
Cluster -Cluster 71
A mighty slab of drone for a wet Monday morning. Somehow it sounds like it could have been made yesterday
clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluste...
Cluster -Cluster 71
A mighty slab of drone for a wet Monday morning. Somehow it sounds like it could have been made yesterday
clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluste...
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Now imagine Stephen Pollard and the Jewish Chronicle's reaction if the revelations about historic antisemitism had concerned Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer or indeed anyone on the centre/left.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Now imagine Stephen Pollard and the Jewish Chronicle's reaction if the revelations about historic antisemitism had concerned Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer or indeed anyone on the centre/left.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
Jimmy Jimmy
#WeekendSingles
My first (I think) reggae single, bought on a school trip to France, and one picked up in Holland last year
#WeekendSingles
My first (I think) reggae single, bought on a school trip to France, and one picked up in Holland last year
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Jimmy Jimmy
#WeekendSingles
My first (I think) reggae single, bought on a school trip to France, and one picked up in Holland last year
#WeekendSingles
My first (I think) reggae single, bought on a school trip to France, and one picked up in Holland last year
Some Sunday sevens for #WeekendSingles
More from Liverpool. First pic includes a couple of stray ones from 7" box sets that were in the £1 bins
More from Liverpool. First pic includes a couple of stray ones from 7" box sets that were in the £1 bins
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Some Sunday sevens for #WeekendSingles
More from Liverpool. First pic includes a couple of stray ones from 7" box sets that were in the £1 bins
More from Liverpool. First pic includes a couple of stray ones from 7" box sets that were in the £1 bins
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Gig Announcement!
Sunday 1st Feb @ The Cab Newport
Matinee gig (floor show)
vogonlaundromat.bigcartel.com/products
Haress
haress.bandcamp.com/album/skylarks
Bryn Wyrd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8w9...
Motes elasticfurniturelabel.bandcamp.com/album/escala...
Be there.
Sunday 1st Feb @ The Cab Newport
Matinee gig (floor show)
vogonlaundromat.bigcartel.com/products
Haress
haress.bandcamp.com/album/skylarks
Bryn Wyrd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8w9...
Motes elasticfurniturelabel.bandcamp.com/album/escala...
Be there.
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Gig Announcement!
Sunday 1st Feb @ The Cab Newport
Matinee gig (floor show)
vogonlaundromat.bigcartel.com/products
Haress
haress.bandcamp.com/album/skylarks
Bryn Wyrd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8w9...
Motes elasticfurniturelabel.bandcamp.com/album/escala...
Be there.
Sunday 1st Feb @ The Cab Newport
Matinee gig (floor show)
vogonlaundromat.bigcartel.com/products
Haress
haress.bandcamp.com/album/skylarks
Bryn Wyrd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8w9...
Motes elasticfurniturelabel.bandcamp.com/album/escala...
Be there.
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Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*